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Asked by Greg SmithConservativeDepartment for Environment, Food and Rural AffairsTabled Answered 25 March 2025UIN 39108

The question

To ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, whether his Department considered alternatives to extended producer responsibility.

Answered by Mary Creagh

The Government consulted on the principles, objectives, and proposals for extended producer responsibility in 2019 and 2021, and these received high levels of support. This followed initial lobbying in 2018 from the sector, which preferred extended producer responsibility, in which funds are invested back into the sector, to other fiscal measures such as a non-hypothecated tax.

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